[Sustainable-biodiesel] Northeast Biodiesel Company buying 26.5 acres tomorrow

Tue Oct 2 22:41:06 EDT 2007

Just wanted to let you know we're buying land in an industrial park in
Greenfield MA tomorrow am.  We're pretty excited to be taking a big step
forward on our 10 million gallon a year biodiesel plant project.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement many of you have given us over
the last couple years!

We're pioneering a new way of raising capital, where investors voluntarily
step aside from majority control so that our consumer cooperative (Co-op
Power) can be the majority owner of the biodiesel plant and bring benefit to
our community for generations to come.

Sometimes good ideas are just that.  Thanks to lots of people pitching in on
this one, it looks like we're getting to the next step and making it a
reality.  I'll let you know when we get our financing in place and finally
break ground.

Thanks again!
Lynn

Lynn Benander
Manager, Co-op Power
413-772-8898
cooppower.coop

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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:53:51 -0400
> From: "Emily Bockian Landsburg" <eblandsburg at theenergy.coop>
> Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Congrats Dan!
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> Hey Dr. Dan,
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> Congrats on your new station!
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> http://seattlest.com/2007/09/24/biodiesel_just.php
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> ________________________________
>
> Emily Bockian Landsburg
> Manager of Business Development
> The Energy Cooperative / Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
> 1218 Chestnut Street, Suite 1003 Philadelphia, PA 19107
> t: 215-413-2122  f: 215-413-2140
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> <http://www.theenergy.coop/> www.theenergy.coop
> <http://www.fryodiesel.com/> www.fryodiesel.com
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> of Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel Inc, and/or its affiliates that may be
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> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:00:21 -0400
> From: "Emily B. Landsburg" <emily at fryodiesel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Sustainable Biodiesel market
>         models
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> Hi Andrew,
>
> Sorry for delayed response. Unfortunately I don't have any resources to
> offer specifically relating to biodiesel...but perhaps you could borrow
> information from generic studies about the value of local/sustainable
> businesses and apply those to biodiesel businesses.
>
> Resources might include the Institute for Local Self Reliance
> (http://www.ilsr.org/) and Balle (http://www.livingeconomies.org/).
>
> Emily
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sustainable-biodiesel-bounces at lists.emji.net
> [mailto:sustainable-biodiesel-bounces at lists.emji.net] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Hudgins
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:18 PM
> To: sustainable-biodiesel at lists.emji.net
> Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Sustainable Biodiesel market models
>
> Emily,
>
> I hope all is well in the sustainable Biodiesel world.  I wanted to let
> you
> know about a workshop I am putting on in October regarding the expansion
> of
> the Biodiesel market here in San Antonio.  Through this process (I have
> made
> this clear to all those involved/invited) the focus will be on using local
> resources for local transportation needs.  I have attached the original
> invitation e-mail to this message.
>
> I spoke with Annie Nelson and Kelly King at the Texas Biodiesel Conference
> regarding what I am trying to do and I am keeping them in the loop.  My
> question to you is - can you direct me to any good studies, reports,
> factoids, etc. on the establishment and/or benefits of community-based,
> sustainable Biodiesel markets?
>
> Thanks for you help!!
>
> Andrew P. Hudgins
> Clean Cities Coordinator
> Alamo Area Council of Governments
> 8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 700
> San Antonio, Texas 78217
> phone: (210) 362-5228
> fax: (210) 225-5937
> www.aacog.com/cleancities
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:10 -0400
> From: "Emily B. Landsburg" <emily at fryodiesel.com>
> Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] sustainable fuels hit The Onion
> To: <sustainable-biodiesel at lists.emji.net>
> Cc: 'Heidi' <heidi at fuelresponsibly.org>
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> Just for fun:
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> http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_eco_friendly_packaging
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> New Eco-Friendly Packaging Triggers Boom In Guilt-Free Littering
>
>
>
> The Onion (July 21, 2007) Issue 43.29 </content/index/4329>
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>
>
> ROCKFORD, IL-Nick Sundin used to be neurotic about littering. The
> 37-year-old pediatrician admits he kept trash bags in his car, and would
> even pick up and throw away garbage he found on the street. Since boyhood,
> Sundin said, he was keenly attuned to the environmental degradation
> littering caused, an attitude triggered by the famous Keep America
> Beautiful
> "Crying Indian" public service announcement he saw on television as a
> young
> man.
>
>
>
> Not anymore.
>
>
>
> "These 'eco' products are amazing-they've totally changed my life," Sundin
> said. "Now, I just toss my used Seventh Generation-brand paper plates out
> the car window, knowing they'll soon be absorbed into the earth."
>
>
>
> The growing "green" trend in product packaging, which emphasizes the use
> of
> recycled, biodegradable post-consumer paper-based materials and relies
> less
> on petroleum-derived polymers like styrofoam, has unleashed a spontaneous
> trashing of sidewalks, roadsides, and pristine wilderness by gratified
> consumers. Though some environmentalists and scientists were caught off
> guard by the movement, experts say it is here to stay.
>
>
>
> "The stigma attached to littering is at long last being put to rest,"
> industry analyst Tom Schneider said. "As long as manufacturers are
> packaging
> their goods in unbleached paper and biodegradable, cornstarch-based
> plastics, more and more consumers will discard their refuse wherever they
> please, knowing it will safely decompose within 10 to 20 years. Call it
> the
> 'New Compost.'"
>
>
>
> "PITCH OUT." Environmentally conscious consumers litter a New Mexico
> roadside with earth-safe eco-waste.
>
>
>
> The reaction from "neo-litterbugs" like Sundin has been nothing less than
> ecstatic. Highway littering shot up 6 percent nationwide in the last weeks
> of 2006, shortly after retail giant Wal-Mart announced its intention to
> encourage its tens of thousands of suppliers worldwide to reduce packaging
> materials.
>
>
>
> And now that McDonald's is incorporating post-consumer materials into some
> of its packaging, Golden Arches-decorated wrappers and cups are becoming
> common sites in public parks, residential districts, Civil War
> battlegrounds, peregrine falcon nesting boxes, and coastal tide pools.
>
>
>
> Consumers are also growing more packaging-conscious, checking containers
> and
> boxes for recycled and post-consumer content to ensure that, once used,
> they
> can be properly wasted.
>
>
>
> Receiving a decorative metal tin of cheese popcorn on Administrative
> Professionals Day in April delighted Miramar, FL medical records
> supervisor
> Donna Kern. Finding out that the tin contained 80 percent recycled
> material
> delighted her even more.
>
>
>
> "I never used to know what to do with those tins, so they just created
> clutter in my home," Kern said. "But when I saw that this one was made of
> recycled metal and nontoxic paint, I went and sank it in the Everglades.
> Now
> I'm going through my home to see what other environmentally friendly
> things
> I can throw away or burn. Caring about nature has never been so fun."
>
>
>
> Eco-littering, however, is just one of the ways the public is embracing
> the
> green idea. The growing popularity of flex-fuel cars, which can run on
> regular gasoline or the ethanol-hydrocarbon compound known as E85, means
> more people can enjoy old-fashioned Sunday joyrides and short drives to
> the
> neighborhood supermarket without fretting about wasting nonrenewable fuel.
> Compact fluorescent lightbulbs now save the trouble of turning off lights.
> And cleaner-burning fuels and sustainable energy sources such as wind and
> solar power are making the longtime dream of running household appliances
> at
> all hours a reality.
>
>
>
> "Since they began discussing the construction of that offshore wind farm,
> I
> don't worry about leaving my air conditioner and television on for my cats
> when I go away," Worcester, MA retiree Herk Ellroy said. "They can get
> very
> hot. And lonely."
>
>
>
> The new prevalence of eco-friendly packaging is the culmination of a
> decades-long struggle between environmentalists and the business
> community.
> Still, some activists are dissatisfied with the results. To curb the new
> littering, the Sierra Club is now suggesting that all consumer packaging
> be
> coated with a toxic, nonbiodegradable polymer all consumer packaging be
> coated with a toxic, nonbiodegradable polymer that would kill wildlife and
> poison groundwater unless products were disposed of in heavy plastic
> garbage
> bags.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------______________________________
>
> Emily Bockian Landsburg
>
> Manager of Business Development
>
> Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
>
> 1218 Chestnut St. Suite 1003, Philadelphia, PA  19107
>
> t:215 413 2122  f:215 413 2140 www.fryodiesel.com
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